100+ Kevin Rudd Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: - Kevin Rudd (2017). “Not for the Faint-hearted: A Personal Reflection on Life, Politics and Purpose 1957-2007”, p.9, Macmillan Publishers Aus.

Topics: Leadership, Responsibility, Benefits

The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future. We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians...

source: - "David Leyonhjelm parodies Kevin Rudd's apology to stolen generations". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2016.

Topics: Leadership, Moving, Grief

Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development.

Topics: Justice, Tools, Fundamentals, Economic Development

A future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with an equal stake in shaping the next chapter in the history of this great country, Australia.

source: - "Australia's apology in full". www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2008.

Topics: Country, Opportunity, Australia, Aboriginal, Next Chapter

For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural wonders - the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, our rainforests - are now at risk.

Topics: Rivers, Fire, Risk, Rainforest, Reefs

John Howard has gone a bridge too far by not going far enough

Topics: Bridges, Gone, Enough

Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls

Topics: Promise, Election, Opinion, Opinion Polls

Would you like to work at home and earn $150 per hour with data entry?

Topics: Home, Data, Hours

Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself.

Topics: Dirty, Compassion, Views

John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency.

Topics: War, Iraq, Agency, Intelligence Agencies

My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help.

source: - Kevin Rudd (2017). “Not for the Faint-hearted: A Personal Reflection on Life, Politics and Purpose 1957-2007”, p.299, Macmillan Publishers Aus.

Topics: Names, Kevin, Helping, Queensland

Attaining a PhD is just an excuse that all young women are using nowadays to avoid starting families.

Topics: Phds, Excuse, Young, Young Women, Starting A Family

The alternatives [to the stimulus packages] were to do nothing or, worse, effectively replicate the Premiers' Plan of 1931 when governments cut expenditure, thereby compounding the problems created by a private sector already in retreat. The result, of course, was an economic rout, appalling unemployment and a decade of negligible growth through the 1930s

Topics: Cutting, Government, Growth

I just don't really get into all that sort of personal negative stuff. My job is to outline some positive plans for the country's future and perhaps Mr. Howard and the Government don't like the fact that I'm putting out some positive alternatives. What's their preference.. for me to be a negative carping opposition leader?

Topics: Country, Jobs, Government

I'm not gay, im just liberal-curious

Topics: Gay, Curious

Having a go at kids with a terminal illness is really beyond the pale, absolutely beyond the pale.

source: - Kevin Rudd's remarks during the press conference at the Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. April 6, 2009.

Topics: Kids, Illness, Pale, Terminal Illness, Terminal